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From: brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: perl binary: does it include suid patch?
Date: 17 Feb 1997 18:01:49 GMT
Organization: Utell International
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) wrote:
: > Does the perl binary installed with FreeBSD 2.1.5 and up incorporate the
: > suid security patch of 24 June 1996?
: No, but this patch proved to be broken anyway. (It resulted in a
: do-nothing operation of suidperl.) Instead, FreeBSD's suidperl simply
: doesn't use the offending Posix Saved IDs feature that was causing the
: security problem in the first place.
AH HA ! Thank you ! I'm not going as insane as I thought ! I couldn't
get the perl5 port to suid things - it was driving me insane !
"Why the hell does it do NOTHING ? Not even an error message!"
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@utell.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !